Data Governance
Robert HillardAugust 2011
The conflict between healthprocesses and information
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“People (will) have more time for leisure activities inthe year 2008. The average work day is about fourhours”
James R. Berry (1968), “40 Years in the Future,” Mechanix Illustrated
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“Information is produced by all processes and it isthe values of characteristics in the processes’ outputthat are information”
R. M. Losee (November 1998), “A Discipline Independent Definition of Information,” Journal of the American Society of Information Science
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Despite the continuing reduction in the cost ofcomputing, it is orders of magnitude more expensivetoday to introduce new products or services than itwas 15 or 20 years ago.
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Privacy• Linking across financial and clinical
domains• No false positive matches• Individual details• long time horizon
Clinical• Within clinical domain• No false negatives• Multiple data types• Minimum translation for expert
consumers
Reporting• Across domains• Time variance• Statistical accuracy (false
positives and negatives often OK)
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[In the 1920s,] experts predicted that by 1980, everysingle woman in North America would have to worksas a telephone operator if growth in telephone usagecontinued at the current rate*
Business Data Communications and NetworkingJerry FitzGerald, Alan Dennis
*At the time, all telephone operators were women
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Complexity
Small Worlds data measure
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Master Data
Persistent Hierarchy
Synchron-isation
Temporal Hierarchy
OperationalSystem Table Field
Mapping
Subject
Entity Attribute
Organisation Structure
Relationship
Dimension Fact
Metric Aggregation
Business Report Metric
Strategy Compliance RuleQuality Measure
Completeness Rule
Accuracy Rule
Stakeholder Attributes Master Data
Persistent Hierarchy
Synchron-isation
Temporal Hierarchy
OperationalSystemTableField
Mapping
Subject
EntityAttribute
Relationship
DimensionFact
Metric Aggregation
Business ReportMetric
StrategyQuality Measure
Synchron-isation
OperationalSystemTableField
Mapping
Master Data
Persistent Hierarchy Temporal Hierarchy
Stakeholder Attributes
Synchron-isation
OperationalSystemTableField
Mapping
DimensionFact
Metric Aggregation
Business ReportMetric
Strategy
EntityAttribute
Relationship
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Average Degree: 2.2Maximum Geodesic Distance: 5Average Geodesic Distance: 2.4
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Isn’t that why we have standards?
Doesn’t Health Informatics solve this?
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Metrics
Navigational
Operational
Atomic
18 months
5 years
forever
18 months
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Minor Subject Area Representatives Regions
Projects
Medical
Financial
Data Governance Board
Data Governance Forum
Secretariat
Major Subject Area Representatives
Major Subject Area
Major Subject Area
Major Subject Area
Major Subject Area
Minor Subject
Area
ProjectProject
Standing Data Quality Resources
Supports subject area representatives
Reports to board
Provides direction for Projects and Standing Data Quality Resources
Minor Subject
Area
Minor Subject
AreaProjectProject Resource
Minor Subject
Area
RegionRegionRegion
Sets information governance agenda for the organisation
Prioritises issues
Has ultimate accountability and supervision of data quality and compliance metrics
Ongoing corrections
Issues managementData governance projects
Minor Subject Areas and Regionsparticipate in the Forum as needed
Major and Minor Subject Area Representatives together form the Data Owners in the Governance
Organisation
Operational
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Relevance
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